AMD today released version 20.2.2 of their Radeon Adrenalin Edition driver suite. The new version brings with it support for the launch of Zombie Army 4: Dead War, so users can experience the latest and greatest performance available for AMD graphics cards on the new release.Perhaps more importantly, the new release also features a number of fixes for Black Screen errors in a number of scenarios and games, of which much has already been written over the internet. There are still a number of instances where black screens can occur listed on AMD's "Known Issues" checklist for this driver release, however, so make sure to check the release notes to see if this driver looks to fix your particular scenario. Of course, you're likely always better off updating to this latest driver version.

After resuming from sleep, Chrome may experience an application crash if video content was previously playing on Radeon RX 5700 series graphics products.

Radeon FreeSync status in Radeon Software may sometimes fail to update when enabling or disabling the feature through the display itself.

Fortnite may experience an application crash on Radeon RX 500 series Hybrid Graphics system configurations.

Known Issues

Enhanced Sync may cause a black screen to occur when enabled on some games and system configurations. Enhanced Sync has been temporarily disabled from the gaming profile and any users who may be experiencing issues with Enhanced Sync enabled should disable it as a temporary workaround.

Performance Metrics Overlay and Radeon WattMan incorrectly report higher than expected idle clock speeds on Radeon RX 5700 series graphics products. Performance and power consumption are not impacted by this incorrect reporting.

DOOM may experience an intermittent system hang or application crash during gameplay.

Desktop cursor may intermittently remain visible after toggling Radeon Software's overlay in some games. A workaround is to bring up the game menu or task switch to refresh the cursor.

A system crash or hang may occur when running the Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers benchmark.

The Gaming tab in Radeon Software may display some folder locations appearing as games.

Radeon Software may open with an inconsistent window size or may not keep its previously set size when opened.

Modifying the HDMI Scaling slider may cause FPS to become locked to 30.

Some games may exhibit stutter intermittently during gameplay on Radeon RX 5000 series graphics products.

Some games may experience stutter while using Instant Replay or third-party applications that stream or perform screen capture. A potential workaround is to disable these features or applications while gaming.

Although Radeon Software Adrenalin 2020 Edition 20.2.2 resolves many black screen issues, AMD is aware that some users may still experience black screen or system hang issues during extended periods of gameplay. AMD will continue to monitor and investigate reports of these issues closely.

Important Notes
This optional release of Radeon Software Adrenalin 2020 Edition is targeted towards resolving recent important issues identified by our community. We will be closely monitoring feedback on the release, and encourage users to submit issues they encounter at www.amd.com/report.

Poll is awkward. If user owns 5000 series amd gpu, and you are asking strictly about 5000 amd's gpu how the third option makes any sense? Even if user has multiple PCs with amd and nvidia gpus third option still makes no sense as you are asking about experience with 5000 amd gpus.

In the same way I can say this driver didn't fix anything to me because as user of radeon rx580 i didn't have black screen issues in the first place. Where is option in poll for me?

Yeah, the polls statistc will spitt out, that everybody not taking place in the poll will use below radeon 5000 series and users of intel graphics.
The poll only targets radeon 5000 series users and interested geforce users.
btw. a lot of non radeon 5000 series users including myself had blackscreen issues, so i will test thisone but i´m pessimistic

_FlareYeah, the polls statistc will spitt out, that everybody not taking place in the poll will use below radeon 5000 series and users of intel graphics.
The poll only targets radeon 5000 series users and interested geforce users.
btw. a lot of non radeon 5000 series users including myself had blackscreen issues, so i will test thisone but i´m pessimistic

My Vega 64 system had the black screen issue only during the first 8 minutes or so after initial post but... only on the original adrenalin release. Every subsequent update I didn't have an issue with. On my 5700xt system never experienced it whatsoever.

springs113My Vega 64 system had the black screen issue only during the first 8 minutes or so after initial post but... only on the original adrenalin release. Every subsequent update I didn't have an issue with. On my 5700xt system never experienced it whatsoever.

Depends really on use case and software environtment it seems. I haven't had a problem with my new RX 5600 XT in the first 3 weeks, but then I had two black screen crashes basically on idle within 4 days.
Due to work related stuff I had to open up Chrome along side Firefox with hw acceleration enabled and after 2-3 minutes swapping tabs on Chrome I had a black screen crash and the computer restarded after a couple of seconds just like a BSOD.

Then had the same thing happen when I had Discord open and just did a right click on my Steam tray icon, menu still came up. But right after that it hardlocked the PC. After that I disabled hardware acceleration in Chrome, FF, Discord, even Steam. Even uninstalled f.lux thinking there might be some compatibility problems too.

Now with the new drivers I turned everything back on again, bar reinstalling f.lux. Will report back if I run into problems again.

ARFWhat if the expected to launch soon Navi 21 turns out to be almost 100% faster than the RX 5700XT, thus obliterating everything including heavily overclocked RTX 2080 Ti ?

Will the drivers be as problematic?

Sadly, if so, yeah, pass.

It's absurd the number of things I've had to fix myself. Case in point: I pointed out the fast sync issue and even identified why it is happening (certain navi spinning and/or bios revisions don't support the FW_DSTATE Power management flag) like, a month ago. It's written here in one of the 5700 XT threads. AMD is just now acknowledging it's an issue, and their fix? To just turn the thing off? That's laughable. *I* literally did better than that with a simple softpowerplay table.

It's absurd the number of things I've had to fix myself. Case in point: I pointed out the fast sync issue and even identified why it is happening (certain navi spinning and/or bios revisions don't support the FW_DSTATE Power management flag) like, a month ago. It's written here in one of the 5700 XT threads. AMD is just now acknowledging it's an issue, and their fix? To just turn the thing off? That's laughable. *I* literally did better than that with a simple softpowerplay table.

spectatorxCould you provide more details on that? As i hear about it for the first time and i'm genuinely curious.

scroll up to post 1 of this thread... under the known issues list... sigh...

milewski1015I've had no issues playing DOOM on my 5700 XT

good for you but if there are opengl issues on a game from 2016, then i imagine many older games that never get tested, that use opengl will have issues too... the older games can't switch over to Vulkan...

lynx29scroll up to post 1 of this thread... under the known issues list... sigh...

good for you but if there are opengl issues on a game from 2016, then i imagine many older games that never get tested, that use opengl will have issues too... the older games can't switch over to Vulkan...

Yes, i saw changelog but did you try it on your own gpu and game didn't launch for you? If yes then did you try on other driver version or have you tried to troubleshoot by following error code which you can find in event viewer? Changelog says "doom may..." so it means it doesn't have to have problems but they may happen.

lynx29good for you but if there are opengl issues on a game from 2016, then i imagine many older games that never get tested, that use opengl will have issues too... the older games can't switch over to Vulkan...

Err, try out those games first before concluding that OpenGL in the driver is broken. The OpenGL renderer for Doom (2016) hasn't been updated for a while. id concentrated on improving Vulkan since thats solely used for id Tech 6 (Wolfenstein II, Youngblood, Saber3D engine) games now.

It's absurd the number of things I've had to fix myself. Case in point: I pointed out the fast sync issue and even identified why it is happening (certain navi spinning and/or bios revisions don't support the FW_DSTATE Power management flag) like, a month ago. It's written here in one of the 5700 XT threads. AMD is just now acknowledging it's an issue, and their fix? To just turn the thing off? That's laughable. *I* literally did better than that with a simple softpowerplay table.